Theme: Aqua Marina
Author: Jon Gos
Version: 0.5 Rosie
Description: An original Wordpress theme.

This was my first attempt at a bespoke wordpress theme. I created it in Photoshop then marked up to XHTML and then PHP. This is a public beta, please help me work out all the bugs and kinks by posting any errors as a comment here! The photoshop file used to make it is included for anyone who wants to redesign it.

Download Aqua Marina

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Recently I’ve begun building a community using the open source Boonex Dolphin software CMS. One problem I was having was that, even after using the the site UI to improve image quality, it still seemed as if uploading images was ‘lossy’. After some research and a chat with the admins I came up with the following solution:

The quality of the output JPEG files can be adjusted in inc/images.inc.php, where you need to replace the following line:

$writeResult = imagejpeg( $dst_im, $dstFilename );

with this one

$writeResult = imagejpeg( $dst_im, $dstFilename, quality_in_percent );

where quality_in_percent is a number from 0 to 100

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More on data visualization which I talked about here.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php

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Theme: Tech Blogger v1
Author: Jon Gos
Based on: CMS2 by Wonder
Includes: PSDs, CSS, javascript, New Media font, all image files
Plug-Ins: All-In-One SEO Pack, I Love Social Bookmarking, Image Scaler, User Photo and Simple Tags
Notes: Widegtized, Validated and ready to roll!

Download it from Mediafire

About the Theme

I began modifying this theme when I noticed that the author had stuffed it full of his own Adsense codes. I removed them from every page and I also changed the color profile because the original was hideous (purple, orange, blue and green wtf?). The Basic layout reminded me of a few popular tech blogs so I created a logo for it, added some rounded corners and gave it a new name. The download includes source files including the font and PSD used to make the logo.

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